Symposium – C… what it takes to change https://ars.electronica.art/c/en Ars Electronica 2014 Fri, 26 Aug 2022 05:23:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Symposium II / Zoubida Charrouf https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/symposium-ii-zoubida-charrouf/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:37:18 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=3703 Continue reading →]]> Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 4:30 PM-5 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Promenade 11-13, 4020 Linz

The site of the afternoon session of the Future Innovators Summit is the lobby of the Sparkasse savings bank, where the discussion will focus on economic change. Zoubida Charrouf, a chemist on the faculty of Mohammed V University in Morocco, will report on an initiative to help women cultivate medicinal plants and to produce argan oil as a way to improve their own lives and nurture biodiversity in their region.


Zoubida Charrouf (MA)
Zoubida Charrouf is Professor at the Faculty of Science at the University Mohammed V in Rabat and President of the Ibn Al Baytar Association in Morocco. Her field of research is the Phytochemistry of Moroccan medicinal plants and the valorization of their metabolites in cosmetics and nutraceuticals. In addition to fundamental and applied research, disseminates her research and creates income for the empowerment of the women in rural areas and for the conservation of the biodiversity. She has founded the first women’s cooperatives for the production and marketing of argan oil in Morocco and has contributed to the organization of argan oil chain value and its recognition as cosmetic ingredient as well as culinary and functionnel food in the word. Zoubida Charrouf is the author of more than 100 publications on argan and its derivatives and more than 300 papers conferences and presentations.


What is the Future Innovators Summit?
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Introduction The Concept Groups and Innovators Mentors Talks, Workshops, Events Future Innovators Exhibition

]]> Symposium II / Sanjit Bunker Roy https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/symposium-sanjit-bunker-roy/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 22:29:59 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=3701 Continue reading →]]> Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 4 PM-4:30 PM
Sparkasse Oberösterreich, Promenade 11-13, 4020 Linz

The site of the afternoon session of the Future Innovators Summit is the lobby of the Sparkasse savings bank, where the discussion will focus on economic change. The first speaker is Sanjit Bunker Roy (IN), the founder of Barefoot College that teaches women in rural India to generate electricity and light with solar energy and to build DIY lamps, kettles, parabolic reflectors and solar elements.


Sanjit Bunker Roy (IN)
Sanjit Bunker Roy is the founder and director of the Barefoot College. He received his formal education in The Doon School (1956-62) and St. Stephens College Delhi University (1962-1967). He was the Indian National Squash Champion in 1965, 1967 and 1971. His “real” education started when he dug open wells for drinking water as an unskilled labourer for 5 years (1967-1971). He established the only fully solar electrified Barefoot College in the deserts of Rajasthan in India 40 years ago. It is the only College in India built by the poor and managed by the rural poor who earn less than $ 1/day. Since then the based Barefoot approach has been implemented in over 30 of the Least Developed Countries, a total of 36,000 houses in 1,024 villages have been solar electrified by nearly 300 illiterate rural grandmothers. Without using the written or spoken word they have been trained in 6 months using only sign language in India in the Barefoot College to be solar engineers under a scheme called ITEC of the Government of India. Bunker Roy was identified as one of the 50 environmentalists who could save the planet by The Guardian in 2008 and as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2010.


What is the Future Innovators Summit?
Here you will find general information:

Introduction The Concept Groups and Innovators Mentors Talks, Workshops, Events Future Innovators Exhibition

]]> Symposium I / K. Bradley Paxton https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/symposium-i-paxton/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:48:58 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=3690 Continue reading →]]> Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 10:15 AM-10:45 AM
Akademisches Gymnasium Linz, Spittelwiese 14, 4020 Linz, Gala room

K. Bradley Paxton (US) will deliver the opening speech on Day 2 of the Future Innovators Summit. As a pioneer of technical developments at Kodak, he’ll give a first-hand account of paths to innovation and what can go wrong along the way.


K. Bradley Paxton (US)
K. Bradley Paxton graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a Master of Science degree in applied mathematics, and a Doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester. During his 32-year career at Eastman Kodak, he served as general manager and vice president of both the Electronic Photography and the Printer Products Divisions, and retired in 1992 as director of the Electronic Imaging Research Laboratories. His company, Advanced Document Imaging (ADI, LLC), helped the U.S. Census Bureau develop and use electronic imaging methods to process the Year 2000 Decennial Census, and to make process improvements for the 2010 Census.


What is the Future Innovators Summit?
Here you will find general information:

Introduction The Concept Groups and Innovators Mentors Talks, Workshops, Events Future Innovators Exhibition

]]> Symposium I / Intro https://ars.electronica.art/c/en/symposium-intro/ Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:42:49 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/c/?p=3688 Continue reading →]]> Future Innovators Summit
FRI September 5, 2014, 10 AM-10:15 AM
Akademisches Gymnasium Linz, Spittelwiese 14, 4020 Linz, Gala room

The second day of the Future Innovators Summit begins in the gala room of the Akademisches Gymnasium. Opening words for the symposium by Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of Ars Electronica.


What is the Future Innovators Summit?
Here you will find general information:

Introduction The Concept Groups and Innovators Mentors Talks, Workshops, Events Future Innovators Exhibition

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